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tenementlike

tenementlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a tenement.

Adjective

tenementlike (comparative more tenementlike, superlative most tenementlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a tenement.
    • The show was set in a tenementlike building at 1030 Tremont, though records from the 1960s do not show an apartment house at that spot.2009 July 11, Joseph Berger, “When Yoo-Hooing Was Big in the Bronx”, in New York Times

Forms of tenementlike

comparativemore tenementlike
superlativemost tenementlike

Origin of tenementlike

From tenement + -like.

Questions about tenementlike

What does tenementlike mean?
Tenementlike means resembling or characteristic of a tenement.
What part of speech is tenementlike?
Tenementlike is an adjective.

Words near tenementlike in the dictionary

  1. tenementary
  2. tenemented
  3. tenementer
  4. tenementers
  5. tenementization
  6. tenementlike
  7. tenements
  8. Tenenbaum
  9. Tenenbaums
  10. tenendas
  11. tenendum

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